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Prime-mover dynamo plants April category listing, related patent applications 04/10

20100102571 - Manpower power generator: A manpower power generator includes a hand pole set, a foot pole set, a linking pole set, a freewheel set, a power generator, a electrical-control apparatus, a battery, a seat sit, and a pedestal. The aforementioned configuration is driven by manpower to output the mechanical energy and to convert the... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20100102558 - Control system for wind energy converters: A wind energy converter configured for transmitting power to an electric grid includes a variable ratio gear system mechanically coupled between a rotor and a generator. A control system is configured to mechanically control a rotational speed of the generator so that, during a low voltage event, the wind energy... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao LLP

20100102560 - Wind power generation apparatus, wind power generation system and power system control apparatus: A power system control apparatus which controls a power system electrically connected to a wind power generation apparatus having a wind turbine which receives wind and rotates, a generator which generates electric power by the rotating wind turbine, and a power converter which converts the electric power generated by the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100102559 - Wind turbine arrangement and method for aligning a wind turbine with the wind direction: A method for aligning a wind turbine with the wind direction is provided. The method includes measuring at least one first pressure at a first side of the wind turbine's nacelle, determining the pressure difference between the measured first pressure and a second pressure, and rotating the nacelle in dependence... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100102557 - Wind-driven power plant equipped with folding and lifting mechanism for raising and stowing the tower: A wind-driven electric plant includes a mast with a windwheel and a generator, a shielding chamber with a base, walls and a cover. According to one embodiment, said mast is attached to the shielding chamber base by a fastening-lifting device attached to a mast transfer mechanism for stowing the mast... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us) Attn: Patent Group

20100102561 - Using sail and wind power to generate electricity, and as a power source: Specially designed masts, rectangular sails that slide inside frames and can be folded or wrapped, and directing the wind around the system by using a wind deflector and a fin, are used to produce power from the wind, masts will rotate around an oval wall in a circle and drive... Agent: Sami A. Zoda

20100102563 - Device for wave-powered generator: Device for a wave-powered generator where a generator via a drive and a primary drive line is connected to a float arranged floating on a water surface, and the drive comprises: a first and a second drive shaft each provided with a freewheel and a drive roller; a part of... Agent: Maier & Maier, PLLC

20100102564 - Method and apparatus for converting ocean wave energy into electricity: A method and apparatus for harnessing power associated with ocean waves and converting that power into electricity. The apparatus is a buoy that houses a vertically oriented central shaft, a pendulum, and a generator. As the buoy tilts from the vertical under the influence of wave motion, the pendulum is... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20100102562 - Wave energy recovery system: The present invention includes novel apparatus and methods for recovering energy from water waves. An embodiment of the present invention may include a buoy, a shaft, and an electric power generating device. The shaft may be coupled to the buoy such that when the buoy moves vertically in response to... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins LLC

20100102567 - Aqua aura power generation process: A power generation assembly is submerged in water and receives potential energy in the form of harnessed buoyancy force that is established and sustained through manipulation of materials of various densities. By use of forces created by the interactions of buoyancy, mass displacement, gravity, leverage and other forces, the captured... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.C.

20100102565 - Oscillating energy capture mechanism: Two or more pivots are mounted vertically or horizontally onto a rotary or stationary support structure or platform, and between these pivots, a flexible sheet of material is suspended. The mechanism operates via oscillation of the pivots that results from the upwind or upstream pivot determining the side of the... Agent: Matthew Gartner

20100102566 - Turbine unit and assembly: A turbine unit (11) adapted to be placed in a flowing fluid. The turbine unit (11) comprises a first turbine set (13) and a second turbine set (15) mounted within a passage (21) of a housing (19). The first turbine blade set (13) and a second turbine blade set (15)... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100102568 - Electric power generating system using permanent magent motors: A system for generating electric power. The system comprising a first rechargeable battery, a first permanent magnet motor powered by the first rechargeable battery, a device for controlling battery power to the magnet motors, a first device for converting mechanical output of the first permanent magnet to electrical energy, a... Agent: Lauson & Tarver LLP

20100102570 - Power generator: The present invention relates to a vertical axis turbine 1 apparatus for converting movement of a fluid into electrical power and a method of manufacture of a turbine. The turbine can be installed on a flexible line 2, such as a cable, rope or stay. It could be used on... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20100102569 - Worldwide wind farm enclosure units and grid: worldwide battery-based airflow induced wind farm enclosure units and grid (webbaidwindfarm): A system for producing energy from the flow of air by providing a source of energy which provides power to operate an airflow generating device directly through mechanical energy, or by generating electrical current that charges a grid of one or more batteries, backed up by other sources of energy... Agent: William Marshall Pickard Ll

20100096859 - Electric bike with capability of self-charging: The present invention provides an electric bike with capability of self-charging. The electric bike is fixedly supported by supporting legs so as to be operated in a stationary point. A user steps on a petal assembly of the electric bike to drive a wheel to rotate. The electric bike further... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20100096860 - Gravity-driven engine: A gravity-driven engine (1) having at least one pulley (2) connected to a pulley support frame (33), a spring (24) connected to the pulley support frame (33), an output shaft (20) having a fly wheel (10) located thereon and wherein the at least one pulley (2) is connected to the... Agent: Edward M. Livingston, Pa

20100096861 - Second law energy system: The purpose of the Second Law Energy System (FIG. 2) is to extract gravity and acceleration forces from steadily falling water in a series of containers. The water is pumped up to the water container located at the top of the system by the water pumps. One by one, each... Agent: Sijo Bak

20100096862 - Power control system and method: A power control system comprises a prime mover and a generator driven by the prime mover. A control device is coupled with the prime mover and the generator wherein the control device ascertains a power level of the generator and varies an output power of the prime mover according to... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael M. Ahmadshahi

20100096853 - Method for the operation of a wind energy plant with a double-fed asynchronous generator and wind energy plant with a double-fed asynchronous generator: A method for the operation of a wind energy plant with a double-fed asynchronous generator which has a mode of operation as a phase shifter, in which reactive power is fed into the electric power supply grid, the method having the following steps: the stator of the asynchronous generator is... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20100096854 - Vertical axis wind turbine using individual blade pitch and camber control integrated with matrix converter: A vertical axis wind turbine that can be actively controlled has the potential to extract wind energy efficiently, and consequently be economically viable for distributed harvesting of wind energy. This invention includes mechanisms and methods for enabling high-efficiency wind energy extraction by a vertical axis wind turbine using active pitch... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP Princeton Pike Corporate Center

20100096855 - Wind power plant: A wind power plant, comprising a tower, a rotor mounted on the tower and having at least one rotor blade, and a power conversion unit, is characterized by a swivel bearing, the swiveling plane of which lies between an approximately horizontal rotor axis (x) and a vertical tower axis (y),... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC

20100096856 - Apparatus and method for generating electric power from a liquid current: A liquid current power generating system in one embodiment includes a first electric generator, a first vertical rotor operably connected to the first electric generator and extending into a liquid current, and a first turbine operably connected to the first vertical rotor and including at least one first end plate... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20100096857 - Flow development and cogeneration chamber: A fluid handling and cogeneration system has an inlet conduit receiving a fluid, a housing having a inlet end, a outlet end and an interior surface. The housing encloses an inner body which together with the housing is arranged to form an annular space between the interior surface of the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20100096858 - Hydroelectric pumped-storage: Hydroelectric pumped-storage includes monitoring electrical demand on a system over time. If the monitored demand exceeds a predetermined first value, fluid is allowed to flow substantially under the influence of gravity from a first aquifer to a second aquifer. Kinetic energy from the flowing fluid is converted into electrical energy.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100090475 - Exercise device capable of generating electricity: An exercise device capable of generating electricity includes a generator unit, a power conversion unit, a controller unit, a power resistor unit, a human machine interface (HMI) unit and an energy conversion unit. The power conversion unit is electrically connected to the generator unit for receiving an AC power source... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20100090476 - Fluid machine, rankine circuit, and system for utilizing waste heat from vehicle: A system for utilizing waste heat from a vehicle has a Rankine circuit, and the Rankine circuit includes a fluid machine. A generating unit of the fluid machine has a third rotating body that is disposed coaxially with a first rotating body of a pump unit and a second rotating... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100090477 - Foot-powered footwear-embedded sensor-transceiver: A user-powered apparatus, system, and method of providing a pedestrian with information is disclosed. The present invention harvests energy created by a moving pedestrian and takes the harvested energy and uses it to recharge an energy storage device that is embedded in the same footwear. Also built into the footwear... Agent: Dewey & Leboeuf LLP

20100090478 - Power control system and method: A power control system comprises a prime mover and a generator driven by the prime mover. A control device is coupled with the prime mover and the generator wherein the control device ascertains a power level of the generator and varies an output power of the prime mover according to... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael M. Ahmadshahi

20100090464 - Adaptive adjustment of the blade pitch angle of a wind turbine: It is described a method of determining a quality of an initial value for a blade pitch angle. An initial power captured by a wind turbine is measured, while the blade pitch angle has the initial value. The blade pitch angle is changed from the initial value to a first... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100090463 - Combined environmental monitoring and power supply device: A wind turbine includes a tower, a machine nacelle and a rotor having a plurality of rotor blades and a hub. Furthermore the wind turbine includes at least one wind speed sensor device having at least one environmental monitoring apparatus for the detection of at least one environmental condition including... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20100090465 - Process of installing prefabricated sections of pressurized and/or non-pressurized fluid-, utility-, and/or matter-carrying and encapsulated mediums with turbine systems attached into medium systems: This patent pertains to an embodiment for a process for installing prefabricated sections of fluid-, utility-, and/or matter-carrying medium systems with turbines systems attached to change the kinetic energy of flowing fluids, utilities, and/or matter into electrical energy. Sections of existing or yet to be discovered mediums systems will be... Agent: Robert Eric Heidel

20100090467 - Hydroelectric turbine-based power-generating system for vessels and submarines: Power-generating system based on successive hydroelectric turbines (∫1N) located parallel to the submerged section of the hull of vessels and/or submarines (generating line ∫1N), at the point or points of greatest channeling of the water flow produced naturally during navigation. Each turbine is preceded by a propeller (∫1N), whose function... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP Suite 310

20100090466 - Non-vibrating units for conversion of fluid stream energy: A unit for conversion of fluid stream energy into electric energy is proposed, in one embodiment comprises two turbines rotatable in opposite directions, furnished with aerodynamically-profiled blades, each having a ‘V’-shape evolvement blank, then bent to produce a helix line wound upon a cylindrical surface, and an electro-generator including two... Agent: Victor Lyatkher

20100090471 - Elastodynamic energy accumulator-regulator: The elastodynamic energy accumulator-regulator comprises a sheet (1) that is wound or capable of being wound in radioida spiral form with increasing or decreasing curvature along the length of the spiral, capable of absorbing energy at variable torque and supply a practically constant torque in broad working areas The laminate... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20100090474 - Modular, collapsible-sail windmill tower system: The present invention provides a modular apparatus for power generation composed of a main shaft, tubular shaft, a ratchet and one or more sails. The modular apparatus comprises a tubular shaft, wherein the tubular shaft concentrically surrounds the main shaft for rotation therearound. It also includes a ratchet, which acts... Agent: Edam Law PLLC Edmar M. Amaya Esq.

20100090473 - Power-augmenting shroud for energy-producing turbines: A shroud, such as for an airborne wind-turbine for converting wind energy into another form of energy, such as electrical energy. The shroud has a ring-like shape with an airfoil cross-section and defines an interior volume for containing a lighter-than-air gas. The shroud includes a central opening oriented along a... Agent: Butzel LongIPDocketing Dept

20100090469 - Power-generator fan apparatus, duct assembly, building construction, and methods of use: The invention provides a rotatable fan assembly adapted for being connected to a generator that produces electric power in response to rotation of the fan assembly. The fan assembly can be mounted inside an HVAC duct of a building, or used in various other environments.... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20100090470 - Stationary wind or fluid scoop which captures and redirects wind or fluid for generating power: Stationary wind or fluid scoop which captures and redirects wind or fluid and forces the wind or fluid into a duct or chamber which feeds one or more air or fluid powered generators to convert wind or fluid energy into electrical or mechanical energy. The wind or fluid scoop can... Agent: Basil Blank

20100090472 - Wind turbine rotor blade and method of manufacturing such rotor blade: The invention relates to a wind turbine rotor blade comprising a blade tip and a lightning protection system. The blade includes at least one metallic lightning receptor at the surface of the blade in proximity of the distal end of the blade tip. The blade comprises a blade shell configured... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100090468 - Windmill-type electric generation system: Disclosed herein is a windmill-type electric generation system that generates a large rotating force even from a small amount of wind. The electric generation system includes four rotary blade units (10, 12, 14, 16) mounted on opposite ends of corresponding rotary shafts in pairs, a first power transmission mechanism for... Agent: Hyun Jong Park Park & AssociatesIPLaw LLC

20100084862 - Hydroelectric power device: A hydroelectric power device equipped with a casing member that has a channel that passes through from an opening on the water entry side towards an opening on the water discharge side, a rotor having a plurality of blades that are integrally fixed respective to the rotating shaft and are... Agent: Londa, Bruce S. Norris Mclaughlin & Marcus, Pa

20100084864 - Collision warning system for a wind energy installation: The invention relates to a device for monitoring a wind energy installation (1) comprising a tower (2) and a rotor provided with rotor blades (5) and arranged on the tower, in terms of a possible collision of a rotor blade (5) with the tower (2). Said device comprises at least... Agent: Sand & Sebolt

20100084865 - Stator controlled induction generators with short-circuited rotor: A generator is connectable to a turbine for generating electric power or a motor. An electric power generator system or a motor comprises an asynchronous short-circuited rotor generator or motor comprising a stator, a rotor, and a transformer having a first winding and a second winding, the first winding having... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20100084863 - Variable vane vertical axis wind turbine: g

20100084866 - System and method for a hydro-hydraulic gravitational generator: A system and method for generating electricity using a hydro-hydraulic gravitational generator. In such a system, a main housing that is disposed in deep water may be exposed to deep water pressure. A piston disposed in the main housing may be raised as water enters the main housing. Water passing... Agent: Graybeal Jackson LLP

20100084867 - Wind power generator: The wind power generator includes: a wind tunnel formed by a cylindrical member erected on a foundation in a vertical direction; a plurality of wind-collecting plates that extends from a circumferential wall of the cylindrical member in directions normal to the circumferential wall; a plurality of upper and lower guide... Agent: Tomoko Nakajima

20100084868 - apparatus for converting wave energy into electrical energy: An apparatus for converting wave energy into electrical energy includes a wave power generation unit including a frame and float guides. A wave power generation float is joined to the float guides for vertical motion in response to the wave energy. The wave power generation float includes at least one... Agent: Icksoo Shin Moffett Road Assembly Of God

20100084869 - Wave power unit, a buoy, use of a wave power unit and a method for producing electric energy: The invention relates to a wave power unit with a buoy (3), adapted to float on a water surface (2). An electric generator (5) is connected to the buoy through connection means (4, 12, 13). According to the invention the buoy (3) when floating on a water surface (2) and... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20100084870 - Floating electrical generator for aqueducts and slow moving waterways: A power generator has a large paddle wheel having a width dimensioned to fit within an aqueduct/canal/slow-moving waterway. The paddle wheel has a plurality of radially projecting paddles which rotate even is slow current flow. Floats allow the paddle wheel to float on the surface of the water. A flexible... Agent: Barber Legal

20100084871 - Pliant mechanisms for extracting power from moving fluid: Flexible and elastic mechanisms for extracting power from a moving fluid. Sheet-like material is deformed during fabrication through an applied force so as to create undulations in said material, whose stresses are maintained through restraining components, thereby maintaining the occurrence of said deformations in the material. When placed in moving... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20100084872 - Speed increaser: A speed increaser is disclosed that translates slow rotating, high torque motion to high rotation, low torque motion and is suitable for use in a device like a wind turbine. The speed increaser has certain advantages, such as reduced weight and/or size compared to other units having the same performance... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20100084873 - System for producing energy through the action of wind: A system and method of generating energy by transforming energy from a low-density substance, such as air flow or wind, into kinetic energy by directing the flow through a wind guide system towards panels that rotate in generally the same direction as the air flow. Furthermore, the system uses the... Agent: Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A.

20100078938 - Method and apparatus for an electrical bus leveling unit: A method and apparatus for an electrical bus leveling unit are provided. The electrical bus leveling unit includes a first power supply configured to generate electrical energy having a first set of electrical parameters and a power converter electrically coupled to said power supply. The power converter is configured to... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20100078940 - Controller and control method for windfarm: In a controller for a windfarm including a plurality of wind turbine generators controllable in rotation frequency and pith of blades of the wind turbine generators, coupled to a grid through a transmission line, an anemometer is provided to each wind turbine generator to transmits wind direction and wind speed... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20100078939 - System and method for controlling a wind turbine during loss of grid power and changing wind conditions: An apparatus and method for controlling a wind turbine having a plurality of blades such that the blade angle of each blade is continuously adjusted during loss of grid power relative to a wind direction relative to an orientation of the nacelle (i.e., yaw offset) and a rotor azimuth while... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20100078941 - Pliant or compliant elements for harnessing the forces of moving fluid to transport fluid or generate electricity: Pliant, or compliant mechanisms for extracting electrical energy or useful work from a moving fluid are described. Persistent deformations in flexible elements are maintained with deformation retaining, or restraining components. The deformation retaining components may, in various embodiments, include rigid or tensile members, elastic coils, and/or the like. The deformations... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20100078942 - Rapid response portable hybrid emergency energy generator: A portable, tow-able, buoyant hybrid renewable energy platform for producing and storing electrical energy using wind, water, and solar power, or a combination of these methods. Included on this platform is a wind turbine that semi-detaches to become a water turbine, if necessary. A small fuel backup generator is provided... Agent: Antolin Dubois

20100078943 - Energy generation structure: An energy generation structure comprising: a wind collector comprising a wind barrier such as a flexible membrane, an aperture through the barrier, and a plurality of supporting elements anchoring the barrier to a supporting body, the wind collector being thereby arranged to funnel wind through the aperture. The structure further... Agent: Cook Alex Ltd